Box Elder County: Stratos Project information page

Summary

The county's own hub for Stratos, standing up as a public-records desk for a project the county approved and then spent the following three months constraining. It links the county's governing instruments — Resolution 26-11 (MIDA consent), the MIDA–county interlocal agreement 26-15, Ordinance 654 (the 180-day data center moratorium) — plus a project timeline, a referendum page, meeting recordings, a fact sheet, the Utah DEQ's permitting letter, and the county water master plan. It is the single best index to the primary records on the county side.

Useful Claims

• The county publishes Resolution 26-11 (consent to MIDA's creation of the Stratos project area) and the Box Elder County–MIDA Stratos agreement 26-15 as public documents.
• The county publishes Ordinance 654, a temporary land use regulation on data centers, adopted after the Stratos consent vote.
• The county maintains a Stratos referendum page recording that referendum applications against the consent resolutions were filed and rejected.
• The county links a Stratos Project Timeline page, but this hub-page capture does not include timeline dates such as MIDA's first formal presentation to the commission or the final commission vote at the Box Elder County Fairgrounds.
• The county links out to the developer's own sites, to MIDA's Stratos page, to the Governor's Office FAQ, and to MIDA's page on transparent.utah.gov.

Verbatim

"This page has been developed to provide residents, media, and community stakeholders with access to public information related to the Stratos Project, including timelines, public documents, meeting materials, FAQs, and updates as they become available to the county." — Page introduction

"The county recognizes there is significant public interest and ongoing community discussion surrounding this project." — Page introduction

"Box Elder County is collecting questions from residents ahead of the upcoming meetings regarding the proposed Stratos Project Area in Box Elder County, Utah. Please note that submitting a question does not guarantee an individual response." — Public question form

The page's own list of what it links, which is the index this source is useful for:

"Meeting Recordings Related to the Stratos Project Stratos Project Map Stratos Project Press Releases Stratos Project Fact Sheet Stratos Project Quick Facts Stratos Page FAQ Page Stratos Project Background Stratos Project Timeline Stratos Project Referendum Stratos Project Referendum FAQs" — Section navigation (each item is a separate link; extraction runs them together)

Reliability Notes

Self-reported tier, and the self-reporting cuts both ways: this is a county that took an unusual amount of public heat for the vote, so the page is written partly as a defense of the process. Its value is as an index to primary records — the resolutions, the ordinance, the interlocal agreement, the DEQ letter — rather than as narrative.

Two caveats. First, the page is a CivicPlus CMS page whose document links are opaque /DocumentCenter/View/<id> URLs; if the county reorganizes, those break, which is why the underlying documents have their own pages here. Second, Resolution 26-11 as published is a scanned PDF with no text layer, so its text could not be extracted or quoted; the vote it records is corroborated by the county's own 2026-05-04 press release and by contemporaneous reporting instead.

Related Pages

• Stratos Data Center
• Source: Box Elder County Ordinance 654 — data center moratorium (2026)
• Source: Utah DEQ permitting letter to the Box Elder County Commission (2026)
• Military Installation Development Authority